post #13 Henley, Nancy M. “Molehill or Mountain? What We Know and don't Know about Sex Bias in Language.”

I agree with Henley when she says that girls had to learn type II rule of masculine generic during their early school days while boys learned type I growing up. Girls do have to learn to differentiate things by sex and use the correct terminology while boys often to everything as he. I think this happens because in our society we view girls/women to be more proper therefore it is important that they refer to things correctly. Boys on the other hard are given the freedom to make mistakes and these mistakes in terminology made by boys are not corrected right away because society believes it is okay. I think language affects and reflects thoughts. They we speak says a lot about how we are as a society but it also reflects how we are as well. Our views, thoughts, and beleives are reflected through our speech.